The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

can't that just happen? is that too much to ask?

I should try that tennis center, if it's off the Q .... I thought it was in the part of the park that's a crazy far walk for me or like near the F

kept trying to play w/ v1c and yerac at the williamsburg courts in the summer but it was impossible

the ft. greene park courts in the summer are good, especially for me because i live so close -- i run over there an hour before i want the court, sign up and come back or watever. it works out well.

also i hear early morning is really good there, cuz no one's even there and u can get on.

okay but for the tennis center off the Q, is there like a membership required or something? how does it work?

paddle ball = wooden paddles, small hard green ball, 1 wall
squash = long-handled racquets, not sure what kind of ball, 4 walls
racquet ball = short-handled racquet, squeezy big blue ball, 4 walls
tennis = long-handled racquet, furry yellow ball, no wall, 1 net
wallyball = 1 volleyball, 1 volleyball net, 1 racquet-ball court, 1 fun kids party
quadruple volleyball = 2 volleyballs, 2 volleyball nets set up in a cross, 1 basketball court, 1 drunk gym teacher

Funny you come to Sunnyside to go the dentist, I go to Brooklyn Heights.

hahaha! right near me. well, i had to find a dentist that was on my insurance (Guardian), and this office seemed pretty cool. i like it.

the ft. greene park courts in the summer are good, especially for me because i live so close -- i run over there an hour before i want the court, sign up and come back or watever. it works out well.

here's what i started to do last summer cuz i got stressed about it as well: i bought the individual play permits, that are good for one hour. i think they are 7 dollars. and i think they sell them at pentagon sports or something -- a good friend of mine works near there. i actually have a few left over from last summer, i hope they're still valid.

the season permit is expensive and the season is not that long.

so you just keep em until you are asked for them i guess?

well, when you sign up on that clipboard, there's a place where you can put your individual play permit number.

a lot of the time there'll be like a clipboard attendant. if there is, you show them the permit, but they didn't take mine, for some reason! so i don't know how easy it would be to reuse them...

but yeah if the clipboard is just on the fence, u just put your number down and if they ask you for the actual permit, u show it.

i tried getting a permit for the handball courts on the puerto rican side of mccarren park.

"ahem, excuse me sir, i bleieve I have a permit to use that handball court"

"beat it"

"well, I assure you gentlemen..."

"what part of beat it don't you understand?"

" Iguess that would be the "it", I'm not really sure to waht it refers..."

*ow* gunshot to the groin

AAAHHH my worst nightmare

Magnetic Field closing, end of March.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2008/02/brooklyns_magne.html

Why are you reading a vegan mouthpiece, Morbs?

Yeah, depending on who they get for those blow-out shows, I may be camped out on the doorstep for that week.

I have never read any veganganda there.

RIP They will be missed.

never been, maybe I should get over there

oh no!! the mighty Lynne K made magnetic fields her home for years. she's such a good DJ.

does anyone have a trust mechanic in south brooklyn? specifically one who is good with brakes and will not rip me off?

yes, I'm trying to remember though...I think it may have just been a meineke, way down Atlantic Avenue, not so far that I couldn't walk back the Atlantic Center area (or my house in Boerum Hill). The guy was really nice, gave a good guarantee, and I had this other thing wrong with my turn signal, he put some gloop on it for free and said if that doesn't fix it come back in a few days and he'll replace it. It worked for a while then I later replaced it for real myself. Still, the guy was trustworthy. Don't know if it was "cheap" though. I'm googling meineke and atlantic and the only one that comes up is way further down and probably no it. Maybe it wasn't meineke at all.

wait, bell labs has a car?

ok i took my car to that meineke today. they were really nice and i don't blame them for the $1300 that is wrong with me brakes. but i just have to say OH FUCK $#%*(@#$5@)(#$@ $1300?!

wau. you might want to get a second opinion; that seems like an awful lot more than my entire car is worth

it's probably about what my car is worth! sigh.

http://www.johndelk.com/static/dyn-images/1/1717.jpeg

:(((( trade it in and get a new used car??

it's too late, they're doing the work right now!

and any used car that's that cheap is bound to have other problems...

http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/04/streetlevel_cro.php

opening today (right across the street from my house)

the phasing out of the 4am license is very sneaky.

it's sneaky, but since this place has an outdoor space that is going to be really loud and across from my bedroom window, i am happy for it.

It IS sneaky. And evil.

Not for being across the st from bell labs, though.

the beer list looks really awesome though!

Last week, the New York Post reported that the city's traditional 4 a.m. closing time "is facing its last call because community boards are approving liquor licenses for new establishments only if they close at 2 a.m."

GAAAAH WHAT NO NO NO IM HAVING BOSTON FLASHBACKS BLLLEEEEERHHGGG

That looks nice, with tasty beers, plus I'll be around in May and june, bring on the summer. Do they do food?

no more NEW bars at all is fine w/ me

they are going to start with cheese and charcuterie apparently, and then later open a cafe part.

my neighborhood is goin all fancy-town

first they came for the charcuteries... then we were all going to bed at 2 half drunk.

i'm just afraid this will attract a gowanus yacht-clubby white tshirt and fitted baseball cap crowd

if i'm drinkin 7% abv beers until 2 am i'm not going to be HALF drunk

well it depends on when u start doesnt it - i dont like to be rushed

dudes dont worry, after party at my place

if I can help prevent yachtification, i may be lookin at studio nearby tom'w.

actually the sad truth is that i don't think i've stayed at a bar til 2am once in the past year ;_;

MORBS YES BE MY NEIGHBOR

we should go to this place tonight or tomorrow.

I have a ticket to go see Big Dipper at Southpaw tonight so I will be In Your Area!

the first night of a bar ... are you MAD?

ian i can meet you there after you get off work